Cui Lingling listened to the melodious sound of the piano outside the courtyard in a daze, and then turned around and asked the red beads beside her.

"What day has he been playing?"

"Miss Lingling, it's the sixth day!" Hongzhu handed the brewed tea to Cui Lingling and answered Cui Lingling's question.

Cui Lingling took the teacup and held it in her hand and did not drink it, but continued to listen to the sound of the piano outside the courtyard in a daze, and spoke leisurely for a while.

"Then let him play for six days, I hope these six days will be such good weather!"

As soon as Cui Lingling's words fell, a flash of lightning crossed the sky, and after the lightning was a thunderstorm, followed by a torrential downpour.

"Unlucky, when I went out today, Brother Zhuang Ji reminded me that there was rain, but I was careless!" Sima Xiangru, who was sitting in the woods not far from the courtyard of Cui's house and playing the piano, was drenched in a soup chicken by the sudden rainstorm, and panicked with the piano looking for a place to shelter from the rain.

"This Cui Lingling is too lonely, I have been playing the piano for so many days, except for the first day when she used the piano to ignore me, and the back didn't seem to hear my piano, and I don't know if she understands the piano or not, don't confuse me with those dumb and mocking piano sounds." Sima Xiangru, who was wet, ran back to Zhuang Ji's house, and in Zhuang Ji's puzzled eyes, he hurriedly ran back to the guest room where he was temporarily staying with the qin, and after sneezing and changing his clothes, he looked at the wet qin who was also drenched and said a little anxiously, but he heard the sound of the door being knocked on just after he finished speaking.

"Brother Changqing?" Zhuang Ji knocked on Sima Xiangru's door again, Sima Xiangru felt a little annoyed when he heard Zhuang Ji's voice, but he straightened his clothes, opened the door with a warm smile, and asked Zhuang Ji what was the matter with him.

"I haven't seen Brother Changqing all day today, I made a new poem at home, and I want Brother Changqing to help me take a look!" Zhuang Ji said and took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Sima Xiangru, Sima Xiangru took it with a smile, and looked at Zhuang Ji's new work with a serious face, but his heart was very scornful of Zhuang Ji's speech, so he brought some perfunctory things when commenting, not like he did everything he could to show his talent in order to stay at Zhuang Ji's house.

"Brother Changqing has a violin out today, or is he going to meet friends with the qin?" Zhuang Ji didn't see Sima Xiangru's perfunctory and impatient treatment of him, and sincerely thanked Sima Xiangru for his comments, and then asked the question that he had been curious about Sima Xiangru for a day.

"Hmm!" Sima Xiangru didn't want people to know too much about his pursuit of Cui Lingling, so he just gave a cold 'um', and said that he was a little tired after going out for a day and sent Zhuang Ji away, and he sat in the house thinking about how to hook up with Cui Lingling faster.

"Life under the fence must end quickly!" Sima Xiangru drank the cold tea he made in the house, and after eating the very ordinary meals of the Zhuang family, he was even more anxious to marry Cui Lingling immediately, and then be the master of the Cui family, eat well and dress well, and live a life of being served.

Sima Xiangru swallowed the last cold dish in one bite, put down the dishes and made some decisions, "It seems that I have to work harder!" ”

***

"It's a different tune today!" Cui Lingling looked at the light rain outside and found that Sima Xiangru had changed the tune today, so she listened carefully, wanting to see what Sima Xiangru was going to do, and when she heard the sound of the piano with some teasing, she couldn't help but snort coldly and asked about the red beads on the side.

"Wouldn't this be the song that Sima Xiangru used to seduce Miss Zhuo in the first place?"

"The slave hasn't heard that song either, but I'm afraid it's that tune!" Hongzhu replied to Cui Lingling uncertainly, "The slave maid asked the people who had listened to it to come and see if it was the song that Sima Xiangru had seduced my young lady to play." ”

Hongling went down and quickly brought a man over, and the man listened attentively to the music that Sima Xiang was playing today, and then told Cui Lingling with certainty.

"Miss Lingling, this is the song that Sima Xiangru played at the banquet held by the head of the family that day, and Miss's maid Luru said that this song was called "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" by Sima Xiangru in a letter!"

"What a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix"! This Sima Xiangru really dares to compare himself to a phoenix, and he doesn't look at where he is a pheasant! Cui Lingling couldn't help sneering and mocking when she heard the teasing and frivolity in that song, and when she saw Sima Xiangru playing it again and again, she couldn't help but ask Hongzhu to bring her piano.

After Hongzhu brought the piano, Cui Lingling began to play a majestic tune, and stopped playing Sima Xiangru's somewhat glamorous "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" song at all, and Cui Lingling took the piano.

didn't hear the "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" that made Cui Lingling feel insulted, Cui Lingling was in a much better mood, but the red beads on the side were a little speechless and stopped, Cui Lingling saw that she understood her worries, so she spoke.

"I'm afraid that my song will make that Sima Xiangru decoupled? Hongzhu, you also underestimate a greedy man's coveting of fat, unless I clearly express my dislike for him, or I marry someone else, otherwise, it will be difficult for Sima Xiangru to let go when he stares at me. You have also investigated, this Sima Xiangru has been in Chang'an for a few months, but he can't even see those noble ladies, let alone the rich lady to let him calculate, he stays in Chang'an for more and longer, but he even has to rely on others to settle down, and he wants to soar to the sky to build a line in the palace, he has no money, no power, nothing, and he can't even convince the dogs outside the palace, and now we have set up a trap for him to get in, and he will definitely not give up lightly when he sees that I have money! ”

"And I slapped him in the face with a tune today, just to let him know that I am not good at tunes like "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", he Sima Xiangru don't use old tricks to seduce me, men, it's easy to be perfunctory when you get it, I am too easy to take the bait, this Sima Xiangru ah, it won't be too hard!"

Cui Lingling's explanation made Hongzhu feel at ease, and smiled at Cui Lingling and said, "Miss Lingling is still smart!" ”

"Smart?" Cui Lingling was not happy because of Hongzhu's praise, but looked at her hand with some traces, and her thoughts drifted.

"Of course Miss Lingling is smart, this is what the head of the family has praised, didn't the head of the family let the slaves and maids listen to Miss Lingling's arrangement when they came to Chang'an this time? This can be seen that the head of the family is convinced of Miss Lingling! Hongzhu didn't notice Cui Lingling's daze, but continued to praise Cui Lingling and pull Cui Lingling's ethereal thoughts back.

"Listen, Sima Xiangru has changed his tune!" Cui Lingling was about to say something to Hongling after she came back to her senses, but she heard Sima Xiangru, who had stopped playing "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" outside, playing another atmospheric tune.

"He's currying favor with me!" Cui Lingling heard Sima Xiangru's unfamiliarity in playing the atmospheric piano music, and knew that this kind of music was not Sima Xiangru's favorite piano music, but now it was played in the previous style, obviously to please her.

"Hongzhu, let the porter make things difficult for Sima Xiangru for a few more days, and then hint at Sima Xiangru, and let Sima Xiangru take the only jade pendant on his body as an errand fee for the porter to send me a letter." After Cui Lingling thought about some things in her heart, she ordered the red beads beside her.

"Miss Lingling, the jade pendant on Sima Xiangru's body is an heirloom of his family, he has not pawned it so many times, I am afraid that he will not give it to the concierge this time, right?" Hongzhu didn't agree to pass it on immediately, but asked Cui Lingling with some worry, but Cui Lingling said with a smile and some confidence.

"No, he'll give that jade pendant to the porter, as long as I'm out a few times with great fanfare!" Cui Lingling said, stood up and looked at the rain that had stopped, and then turned back to Hongzhu and said.

"Send me back to my room, I'm going to go out with a lot of money today! Take the jewelry that Zhuo Gong gave me, pick the most expensive set for me to wear! ”

Hongzhu listened to Cui Lingling's words and understood what Cui Lingling was going to do, so she responded with some joy 'Okay', and then stepped forward to help Cui Lingling, who was a little weak, to leave the yard and slowly return to the house.

Outside the hospital, Sima Xiangru, who didn't know that Cui Lingling had left, was sitting under a tree not far from Cui's house because of a previous rain, and continued to play the tunes he thought Cui Lingling would like over and over again, hoping to make Cui Lingling fall in love with his piano skills.

"Ah Qiu, I'm cold! It's a goddamn rainy day! ”